The Drifter: The Review
The Drifter is refreshingly intimate, memorable, well-written & well-acted video that you might not expect to be released from Raging Stallion. After all, Raging Stallion is well known for putting out all-star multi-disc, often epic blockbusters. However, Raging Stallion is also a prolific studio and their overall success allows them to take risks and produce more scaled down features that aren't necessarily huge moneymakers. However, it's a gamble that often CAN pay off and should with a film like The Drifter.
The Drifter is reportedly a semi-autobiographical story written by its star Logan McCree and as such it feels deeply personal and romantic. Directors Tony Dimarco & Ben Leon are well aware of this and try to balance the warm and fuzzy qualities of the story by providing enough hot sex scenes to satisfy those seeking out less meaningful entertainment. After all this IS porn. For the most part they succeed although it feels as though some sex scenes in The Drifter could have been edited down or eliminated for time consideration. It is a two-disc set that perhaps might have been crisper edited down to one.
The story of The Drifter is simple enough. Logan McCree comes home to find a cheating boyfriend and storms out, winding up backpacking in the wilderness and getting stranded in the rain without food or shelter. He finds sanctuary in the remote mountain cabin of a kindly (and bi-curious) stud Vinnie D'Angelo who lets Logan clean up and spend the night. One night turns to a few days as the two company-starved gents become friends and engage in a series of manly activities like chopping wood, skinny-dipping, spying on a camping party's orgy, trading sex stories, etc. Along the way this newfound friendship is accompanied with a growing sexual tension that reaches a climactic conclusion.

The Drifter could easily have been just this two character movie but might have been deadly dull for those seeking a variety of characters. Thus we see other stories play out here. The first is the aforementioned cheating boyfriend RJ Danvers and Luke Hass before they're discovered by Logan. RJ Danvers is always a sexy young furball that's fun to watch but it's a shame he has a pretty thankless supporting role as an ass. Next up is a outdoors three-way with Scott Tanner, Manuel DeBoxer, and Damian Rios as the camping trio briefly spied on by Vinnie & Logan. It's pretty hot but doesn't really seem essential to the rest of the video.
Both of the sex stories that Vinnie D'Angelo and Logan McCree tell are told in flashback and are designed to show their "formative" experiences. In the Vinnie D'Angelo sequence he and buddy Dak Ramsey pick up a woman played by Brianna Beach and have a bisexual scene we rarely see here at Raging Stallion. Logan McCree relates his tale of being in a German sex club three-way with Bo Matthews and Scott Alexander. Neither scene is really wasteful as it increases the sexual; tension between the two stars.
And, as they spend more time together, the sexual tension grows to the point where at different points both Vinnie D'Angelo and Logan McCree find a private moment to beat off. The pay off comes at the end when, in a tantalizingly wordless episode, the two stars are restlessly lying in bed together when Logan finally takes the initiative and makes the moves on Vinnie. It's a truly hot, sensual, and sexually hot seduction and love-making session that seems the most like a departure from the rough and stuff style we're used to seeing at Raging Stallion. If this seems the least mechanical and the most chemistry-laden scene it's because Logan McCree & Vinnie D'Angelo are real-life boyfriends.
Logan McCree & Vinnie D'Angelo have a lot of screen time overall and have a great deal to do but they are very up to the task, being ever mindful of keeping their acting subtle while doing what can be the most difficult acting exercise-playing yourself.
We like the idea that Raging Stallion can make this kind of movie but we'd have liked it more if had been edited a bit more. Nevertheless it gets our high recommendation.













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